[Esip-soil-informatics] Followup questions from 5 May GLOSIS presentation

Gary Berg-Cross gbergcross at gmail.com
Thu May 6 13:37:54 EDT 2021


Raul,Et al.
I have two  followup questions from the GLOSIS ontology presentation that
there wasn't time
to cover during our hour session.

1. Are there definitions in the GLOSIS ontology?
When I look at a class in the ontology like " BulkDensityWholeSoil" I don't
see definitions.
I used the link:
http://w3id.org/glosis/model/layerhorizon#BulkDensityWholeSoil
And I can see a text version of the Owl file.
For  BulkDensityWholeSoil it is this segment  info:

glosis_lh:BulkDensityWholeSoil  a	owl:Class ;
        rdfs:subClassOf  *sosa:Observation *;
        rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty
sosa:hasFeatureOfInterest ; owl:allValuesFrom [owl:unionOf
(glosis_lh:GL_Layer glosis_lh:GL_Horizon) ] ] ;
  			rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty
sosa:hasResult ; owl:allValuesFrom glosis_lh:BulkDensityWholeSoilValue
] ;
  			rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty
sosa:observedProperty ; owl:hasValue
glosis_lh:bulkDensityWholeSoilProperty ] .

glosis_lh:bulkDensityWholeSoilProperty a sosa:ObservableProperty ,
qudt:Quantitykind ;
        rdfs:label "bulkDensityWholeSoilProperty"@en .

glosis_lh:BulkDensityWholeSoilValue a owl:Class ;
        rdfs:subClassOf  qudt:QuantityValue ;
        rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty
qudt:numericValue ; owl:allValuesFrom xsd:float ] ;
        rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ; owl:onProperty qudt:unit
; owl:hasValue unit:KiloGM-PER-DeciM3] .


So no commented definition for this concept.  In general I don't see
definitions, but would believe you have them, they are useful for
understanding the model of the domain.  What am I missing?


2.  I'd like to know more about thoughts on the "domain" taxonomy and
structure.

I see ample organization using concepts like sites and things that
Observations out of SOSA and SSN.

These are bottom line useful for soil data by code etc.

But there seems to be little about the soil domain itself (like sub-classes).

Am I missing something or is that an issue?

I've attached a portion of the WebVowl view of Glosis which might make clearer

how I understand the domain organization and absence of a Soil concept
as an organizer.

This would be useful for a real use case and for harmonizing across efforts.

Perhaps you have plans here.

[image: image.png]

Thanks,

Gary Berg-Cross
Ontolog Forum
Potomac, MD
240-426-0770


On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 3:31 PM Todd-Brown, Kathe via Esip-soil-informatics <
esip-soil-informatics at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Thank you Raul for a fantastic overview of the GloSIS ontology. If you
> missed it you can find the recording here: https://youtu.be/q79p_oA5rtU
>  and Anne D took fantastic notes in the logistics document.
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> Brief housekeeping: We now have ONE zoom room for both meetings and the
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> We will be meeting next on 19 May at 2300UTC. If no one comes forward with
> a different suggestion, on the agenda will be pulling together a soil
> semantic resource list for the ESIP Summer meeting (and ourselves!).
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> We are looking for other presentations! If you know of anyone working with
> soil data who would be interested in presenting please send them my way!
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